IP Library Granted Patent US 10,000,106
Granted Patent B2
US 10,000,106 · App. 14/914,924 · Granted Jun 19, 2018

Heating device for vehicle

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Patent No.
US 10,000,106
App. No.
14/914,924
Granted
Jun 19, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electric heater ( 7 ) is individually arranged at a position immediately upstream of a blowing port ( 6 ) that blows an air fed by a blower ( 4 ) into a vehicle room. The electric heater ( 7 ) is formed of a cylindrical case ( 15 ) loaded in the blowing port ( 6 ) and a heat generating sheet ( 16 ) arranged in the case ( 15 ). The heat generating sheet ( 16 ) is formed of a conductive fiber sheet obtained by making a carbon fiber into paper. Furthermore, the heat generating sheet is formed into a continuous strip and radially folded along pins ( 22 ) of the case ( 15 ). The air is heated while flowing along a surface of the heat generating sheet ( 16 ).

Claims (12)

1. A heating device for vehicle, in which an electric heater is individually arranged at a blowing port from which an air fed by a blower is blown into a vehicle room,

wherein the electric heater has a structure in which a heat generating sheet, which generates heat by supplying electricity thereto and is formed in a strip shape, is received in a case such that the heat generating sheet is folded twice or more and that a surface of the heat generating sheet is made to be along a direction of a flow at the blowing port,

wherein the case is equipped with plural pins situated inside folded parts of the heat generating sheet, and the heat generating sheet is folded along the plural pins,

wherein the heat generating sheet is radially folded along pins arranged at an outer periphery and pins arranged at an inner periphery of the case.

2. The heating device for vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the heat generating sheet is formed of a conductive fiber sheet obtained by making a conductive fiber into paper.

3. The heating device for vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the heating device is equipped with a louver at the blowing port, and the electric heater is adjacently arranged in a back of the louver.

4. The heating device for vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a heater core is arranged in a downstream side of the blower, and the electric heater is set up in each of blowing ports to which an airflow passed through the heater core is distributed.

5. The heating device for vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the case comprises an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder, the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder being concentrically arranged in the case and being connected with each other by a connector bar.

6. The heating device for vehicle as claimed in claim 5 , wherein pins are provided on the connector bar.

7. A heating device for vehicle, in which an electric heater is individually arranged at a blowing port from which an air fed by a blower is blown into a vehicle room,

wherein the electric heater has a structure in which a heat generating sheet, which generates heat by supplying electricity thereto and is formed in a strip shape, is received in a case such that the heat generating sheet is folded twice or more and that a surface of the heat generating sheet is made to be along a direction of a flow at the blowing port,

wherein the case is equipped with plural pins situated inside folded parts of the heat generating sheet, and the heat generating sheet is folded along the plural pins.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 1, 2023
From: MAHLE FILTER SYSTEMS JAPAN CORPORATION
To: MAHLE JAPAN LTD
Reel/Frame 062609/0769 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 29, 2016
From: YAMASHITA, TAKAHISA
To: MAHLE FILTER SYSTEMS JAPAN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 037848/0446 →